Understand Azure Guest OS Families
Learn about Azure Guest OS Families.
John Savill
February 23, 2015
1 Min Read
Q. What are Guest OS Families in Azure?
A. Azure has a number of Guest OS Family versions (at time of writing, 1 through 4).
1 - Windows 2008
2 - Windows 2008 R2
3 - Windows 2012
4 - Windows 2012 R2
As time progresses, different Guest OS Families are retired from support in Azure. For example, at this time, Guest OS Family 1 (Windows 2008) has been retired from support as documented at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/dn750850.
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